War in Ukraine: “surrender” of soldiers in Mariupol, 1,500 Russian corpses in Dniepro … the point on the 49th day of the offensive – Le Parisien

The weather conditions of the last few days have not allowed the Russian air force to take off as often as the previous days, according to the Ukrainian forces. Nevertheless, more than a month and a half after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, artillery continues to shell certain towns, notably in the region of Zaporizhya, in the south-east of the country, where no corridor will not, in fact, be open on Wednesday. In Mariupol, the entrenched soldiers would have surrendered While the Russian strikes continue on Tuesday, in particular in the giant steel plant located on the eastern outskirts of the port, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that “1,026 Ukrainian servicemen from the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered” to the area of ​​the “Ilyich Metallurgical Plant” where they had been entrenched for days, using underground routes to organize their guerrillas. During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a report from Russian public television broadcast on Rossiïa 24 announced this surrender; footage showed men in camouflage uniforms carrying wounded on stretchers or being interrogated while standing in what appears to be a cellar. According to Moscow, 150 of the soldiers were injured and were treated at the Mariupol hospital. A few hours later, the adviser to the Ukrainian president, Oleksiy Arestovych, claimed that after a “risky maneuver”, the last defenders of the city had been able to join forces. “Units of the 36th Independent Marine Brigade broke through to [rejoindre] the Azov regiment”, he said, without specifying how many men of this brigade had been able to join the other Ukrainian forces, nor denying the surrender of some. Arestovych claimed that “the defenders of the city, now united, have seriously strengthened their defense zone”. In Kharkiv, shelling continues Partial blockade and artillery shelling around Kharkiv continues in the direction of Slobozhansky, according to the Ukrainian general staff, which accuses the Russian forces of seeking to form pro-Russian popular militias. Seven people were killed in Russian strikes in the Kharkiv region between Tuesday and Wednesday, and 22 others were injured, Governor Oleg Synegoubov said on Telegram, adding that a 2-year-old boy injured in a bombardment on Monday died of his injuries in hospital on Tuesday. In total, this Wednesday, four civilians were killed and at least ten injured in Russian strikes announced the governor of the region. Monday, 66 strikes had been counted, killing 17. Five hours of battle in Polohy The Ukrainian army reported intense fighting in the region of Zaporijjia, in the south-east of the country. A five-hour battle unfolded in the Polohy district on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces attempted to liberate the area. Polohy is located northeast of the Russian-occupied town of Melitopol. 1,500 Russian corpses in Dniepro? The Ukrainian authorities have been trying for weeks to arouse the indignation of Russian mothers, who had mobilized during the long conflict in Chechnya. A Dniepro municipal official, Mykhailo Lyssenko, said in an interview with the Russian-language media Nastoïashchee Vremia that “there are now more than a thousand and a half dead Russian soldiers in the morgue, which no one wants to take away. They lie in refrigerators,” he explains. “Whatever happened, they are someone’s children; we hope their mothers can come and collect their sons, whom they have raised all their lives, whom they have loved,” he said. took stock of the risks: “in the Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers blocked the evacuation buses, and in the Luhansk region, they are violating the ceasefire”, she reproached. According to the Minister, the Russian forces “not only do not respect the standards of international humanitarian law, but they also cannot properly control their personnel on the ground”, “all this creates such a level of danger on the roads that we we are forced to refrain from opening the humanitarian corridors today,” she declared early in the morning.100 million euros of military equipment delivered by Paris to KievMore than one hundred million euros of military equipment were delivered by France to Ukraine, announced Wednesday Florence Parly, French Minister for the Armed Forces, after meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov. “I announced to my counterpart that France will provide additional military capabilities, in addition to the one hundred million euros in donations of equipment already made,” said the minister in a tweet. In a press release from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly specifies that the deliveries concern “means of protection, optronic equipment, armaments and ammunition, weapon systems meeting the needs expressed by Ukraine”. So far, Paris had not quantified the amount of armaments delivered to kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion at the end of February. In the evening, Volodymyr Zelensky deplored Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to denounce a “genocide” in Ukraine by the Russian army, judging it “very hurtful”.